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Baker may join Trump’s opioid panel
Governor Charlie Baker, increasingly defined by his uncomfortable political relationship with President Trump, was in line Wednesday for a presidential appointment to a panel aimed at fighting opioid addiction, individuals in Boston and Washington familiar with the matter said.
The appointment would put Baker at the center of national efforts to combat the opioid crisis, which has killed thousands of people in Massachusetts — and thousands more across the country.
The selection would also mark another twist in the awkward connection between Trump and Baker, a Republican who refused to vote for Trump last November and has sharply criticized the president on issues including immigration and health care.
Baker, who said before taking office that battling the opioid crisis would be a key agenda item for his governorship, was set to join a panel of presidential appointees that would include Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat.
Trump to name Baker to opioid panel - The Boston Globe
Governor Charlie Baker, increasingly defined by his uncomfortable political relationship with President Trump, was in line Wednesday for a presidential appointment to a panel aimed at fighting opioid addiction, individuals in Boston and Washington familiar with the matter said.
The appointment would put Baker at the center of national efforts to combat the opioid crisis, which has killed thousands of people in Massachusetts — and thousands more across the country.
The selection would also mark another twist in the awkward connection between Trump and Baker, a Republican who refused to vote for Trump last November and has sharply criticized the president on issues including immigration and health care.
Baker, who said before taking office that battling the opioid crisis would be a key agenda item for his governorship, was set to join a panel of presidential appointees that would include Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat.
Trump to name Baker to opioid panel - The Boston Globe
The White House on Tuesday also shuffled the leadership at the Office of Drug Control Policy, replacing acting head Kemp Chester — a compromise pick between the outgoing Obama and incoming Trump administrations — with acting head Rich Baum, a former Hill GOP staffer who's been critical of legalizing marijuana and wants to tackle drug cartels abroad.
Baum specializes in what's called the "supply side" of drug policy — cracking down on the flow of illegal drugs — as opposed to "the demand side," or treating the end user. Baum is close to GOP policy experts who worked to enact the "war on drugs" tactics under previous Republican presidents, several sources told POLITICO.
But many officials are doubtful about the supply side approach.
“Our hope is they would take a public health approach to addressing this epidemic," said Laura Hanen, chief of government affairs at the National Association of County and City Health Officials. She pointed out that while there have been inroads to clamp down on over-prescribing of prescription opioids, there's been a corresponding uptick in heroin and fentanyl. “You squeeze one end of the balloon and the air goes to the other end. … If we’re only going to use a supply side approach I doubt it ‘ll be very effective.”
After pledging to solve opioid crisis, Trump’s strategy underwhelms
Baum specializes in what's called the "supply side" of drug policy — cracking down on the flow of illegal drugs — as opposed to "the demand side," or treating the end user. Baum is close to GOP policy experts who worked to enact the "war on drugs" tactics under previous Republican presidents, several sources told POLITICO.
But many officials are doubtful about the supply side approach.
“Our hope is they would take a public health approach to addressing this epidemic," said Laura Hanen, chief of government affairs at the National Association of County and City Health Officials. She pointed out that while there have been inroads to clamp down on over-prescribing of prescription opioids, there's been a corresponding uptick in heroin and fentanyl. “You squeeze one end of the balloon and the air goes to the other end. … If we’re only going to use a supply side approach I doubt it ‘ll be very effective.”
After pledging to solve opioid crisis, Trump’s strategy underwhelms
Look yall. America's favorite Democrat, Joe Manchin.
It's a pic of Gorsuch looking at Ted Cruz.That's not a pic of Joe Manchin though
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Sooooo Flynn trying to get immunity
Mike Flynn Offers to Testify in Exchange for Immunity - The Wall Street Journal
https://apple.news/A6ZydU2qORNuaR50p9Mj8Lw
Mike Flynn Offers to Testify in Exchange for Immunity - The Wall Street Journal
https://apple.news/A6ZydU2qORNuaR50p9Mj8Lw
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/us/politics/gorsuch-confirmation.html
Dems secure enough votes to filibuster Gorsuch, but this will probably be a short-lived victory.
Dems secure enough votes to filibuster Gorsuch, but this will probably be a short-lived victory.
DlAMONDZ
That pu$$y got me grinning
Yea I can't see the GOP letting this go and not filling up that seathttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/us/politics/gorsuch-confirmation.html
Dems secure enough votes to filibuster Gorsuch, but this will probably be a short-lived victory.
There's so much to keep track of with this shytty administration that it really hurts lol.
I'll just put this here.
I'll just put this here.
superunknown23
Superstar
Now republicans have the nerve to bytch about filibusters
i wonder if her security is provided by blackwater (or whatever the fukk they're called now).